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Pardon me for not finding “vulnerable people need to die for my ideology” very convincing. (mbin.grits.dev)
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[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 points 9 months ago

You're not a "raging leftist" if you vote for Biden. At least ~~vote PSL or Green~~ use a brutal domestic terrorism campaign as leverage to blackmail politicians into overturning first-past-the-post as part of a multi-prong strategy that, even as extreme as you are, still includes a pragmatic hedge in the form of a vote for the lesser of two evils

Of course nobody should be terrorizing anyone. What I’m riffing off of is a perspective someone shared that basically you don’t protest with a vote for a loser, you protest by agitating for systemic change.

In the meantime while the broken system is in place, you feed it a minimally shitty input.

[-] goldenlocks@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

use a brutal domestic terrorism campaign

The fuck? Just vote for third parties where did you get that bullshit from?

In the meantime while the broken system is in place, you feed it a minimally shitty input.

You consent to this system with a vote for Dems.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Reasonable people can definitely disagree on this.

One thing that may be interesting to think about: some percentage of the time an argument is made disingenuously to try to siphon off votes. An entirely genuine recommendation of an identical strategy is fair – as I said reasonable people can disagree – but perhaps calls for some introspection.

It’s too bad when your strategy mirrors that of your worst enemy! So the far leftist could perhaps instead chain himself to legislators’ doors (vehement objection to the system) while consenting to acknowledge reality with a disgusted harm reduction vote for the marginally less-bad elderly man.

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